GPlates is a plate-tectonics program. Manipulate reconstructions of geological and paleo-geographic features through geological time. Interactively visualize vector, raster and volume data. PyGPlates is the GPlates Python library. Get fine-grained access to GPlates functionality in your Python scripts.

Features

  • Load/save geological, geographic and tectonic feature data
  • Assign reconstruction/rotation poles to feature data by cookie-cutting with plate polygons
  • Reconstruct/rotate feature data (vector and raster data)
  • Visualize vector/raster data on a globe or in one of the map projections
  • Visualize sub-surface 3D scalar fields
  • Export reconstructed data as a time-sequence of exported files
  • Query and edit feature properties and geometries
  • Modify reconstructions graphically
  • Calculate surface velocities in topological plate polygons and deforming meshes
  • Track crustal extension/contraction inside deforming regions
  • Use PyGPlates to access GPlates functionality in your Python scripts.

Project Samples

Exponential stretching between Africa and South America 120 million years ago The Hellinger Fitting Tool dialog showing a dataset of segmented magnetic picks 2D graph of velocity over time Mantle temperature isosurface with semi-transparent deviation window Cross sections through the mantle temperature scalar field coloured by isovalue (temperature) with topological plate boundaries overlaid on top Surface relief shaded of the General Bathymetric Chart of the Ocean (GEBCO) raster using itself as the relief map

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